Chapter 381: Chapter 381 Fighting In The Dark
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Although Shen Ye himself does not have any martial arts skills, he can still fly high by relying on his strong physical fitness and professional abilities. He can easily jump dozens or even hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye. After all, in this fantasy martial arts world, the several professional abilities he can use are basically not restricted.
Therefore, even though Ji Ruxue's figure was erratic and ghostly, he could still follow her easily.
In order to avoid being discovered, he did not follow too closely, but stayed not too far behind Ji Ruxue. Only when the distance between them was a little far did he speed up.
A few minutes later, the two of them crossed half of the city and came to a residential area with complex terrain. At this moment, the two of them happened to be quite far away from each other. Before Shen Ye could speed up, Ji Ruxue suddenly turned around and fell into an alley. When Shen Ye jumped over, she had disappeared.
Shen Ye was stunned for a moment, then immediately held his breath and concentrated to sense something, but most of the disciples of Huanyinfang were assassins, and were best at the secret technique of restraining their breath and hiding their bodies, and Shen Ye did not sense it.
After standing there for a long time, Shen Ye finally sighed, "No wonder the people from Xuanming Sect could lose me in broad daylight. Huanyinfang really has some tricks."
Shaking his head helplessly, Shen Ye could only return to the inn first. Anyway, according to the plot, Ji Ruxue should not leave Yuzhou City in the next few days. Then he could just go to the city gate and wait.
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In a bedroom in a residential courtyard, Ji Ruxue exchanged greetings with several young women in front of her and said, "Are the things ready?"
These Huanyinfang disciples were spies stationed in Yuzhou who were responsible for intelligence work. The leading Huanyinfang disciple nodded, turned around and took out a small box from under the bed, opened it and placed it on the table in front of Ji Ruxue, and said:
"In the past few days, people from the Xuanming Sect have been searching everywhere in the city. After you get this item, you must be careful and leave the city as soon as possible to deliver it to the empress."
Ji Ruxue took a look at the fire ganoderma in the box, smelled the fragrant aroma, then closed the lid and nodded, "Don't worry, I'll leave the city tonight."
As she spoke, she took a bundle from behind her, wrapped the box, and tied it around her waist.
Seeing her put away the box, one of the female disciples of Huanyinfang said, "For safety reasons, we should send you out of the city."
Ji Ruxue shook her head: "No need, too many people will attract the attention of Xuanming Sect, I can do it alone."
"Okay then, you have to be careful." The female disciple did not force it, but just gave a warning.
Ji Ruxue hummed, turned and walked towards the door. However, just as she opened the door, a sharp arrow shot towards her with a whistling sound.
Although Ji Ruxue's current strength is only at the Intermediate star level, her reaction is not slow at all. Moreover, as a disciple of Huanyinfang, she has some basic dance skills. Facing the incoming arrow, she subconsciously bent her body backwards at an exaggerated angle, narrowly avoiding the fatal arrow.
But the disciples of Huanyinfang behind her were not so lucky. One of them was pierced through the chest by a sharp arrow and nailed to the ground.
Seeing the sisters nailed to the ground, the other disciples of Huanyinfang in the house finally reacted. However, the first thing they did was not to check on the sisters. Instead, they drew their swords, smashed the window and rushed out.
"Xue'er, hurry up and leave. We will escort you out of the city."
At this time, sharp arrows were coming like raindrops. The leading disciple of Huanyinfang danced with the sword to deflect the arrows while shouting to Ji Ruxue.
Upon hearing this, Ji Ruxue did not hesitate. She drew out her sword with one hand and held the bag on her waist with the other. Under the protection of the female disciples of Huanyinfang, she prepared to climb over the wall to escape. After all, she was standing under a rain of arrows and if she took a deep breath and leaped, she would be shot into a hedgehog in mid-air.
However, just as she ran to the wall, the rain of arrows became sparse, and then dozens of Xuanming Sect assassins jumped in from all directions of the courtyard, attacking them with knives.
Hand-to-hand combat was the most brutal. A disciple of Huanyinfang had just forced back a killer from Xuanming Sect with one palm when she was hit in the calf. She lost her balance and several long swords came at her, hacking her to death.
Seeing another sister fall, Ji Ruxue and the remaining disciples of Huanyinfang had no time to feel sad. They worked together to tear open a gap, jumped over the courtyard wall, and came to the street.
But as soon as they landed, they saw the streets full of Xuanming Sect's killers. When they saw them, they immediately shouted and rushed towards them.
Fortunately, most of the Xuanming Sect killers on the street did not even have a Lesser Star rank. With the desperate fighting of Ji Ruxue and several other sisters from the Huanyinfang, they actually managed to break out, but two more sisters died in the chaos of swords.
At this time, the only disciple from Huanyinfang who was the leader was by Ji Ruxue's side. She was injured in many places and there were several arrows stuck in her calves, but she still gritted her teeth and protected Ji Ruxue.
After running across two streets with difficulty, the disciple from Huanyinfang finally couldn't hold on any longer, his legs went weak, and he fell to the ground.
Ji Ruxue turned around and wanted to help her, but she pushed her away.
"Don't worry about me, take the Fire Ganoderma and leave the city, quickly!"
Ji Ruxue gritted her teeth and finally chose to turn around and leave. Then, she heard the screams of the disciple from Huanyinfang.
She didn't run too far before she was caught up by the Xuanming Sect's killers on horseback.
Although she wanted to use Qinggong to shake off the pursuers behind her, she had used Qinggong to travel earlier and then fought for a while, so she was exhausted. She could only turn into the alleys on the side of the road and try to use the complex terrain to shake them off.
But as soon as she entered an alley, several killers jumped down from the high walls on both sides. Although she fought hard to kill them, she accidentally inhaled the powder that one of the killers sprinkled on her before he died.
As a killer organization, the Xuanming Sect is naturally an expert in using poison. Even though Ji Ruxue only inhaled a little, she immediately felt dizzy.
However, she did not have time to use her internal energy to detoxify, and with her intermediate star-level strength, she could not sit down. She could only rely on her willpower to move forward.
She staggered out from another exit of the alley, and then she saw that there were already assassins from the Xuanming Sect patrolling that exit, and someone had already discovered her.
"Am I... going to die here?" Ji Ruxue's eyes flashed with despair, and then she pulled off the pocket at her waist, ready to destroy the Fire Ganoderma on the spot.
However, at this moment, a figure suddenly appeared behind her and reached out to hold down her hand which had already taken out the box.
Ji Ruxue was stunned at first, then turned around and stabbed the person behind her with a sword with all her strength, but the person easily grabbed her wrist. Then a familiar voice came to her ears.
"This is the third time we've met. If it's not fate, it doesn't make sense."
"It's you again..." Only then did Ji Ruxue see clearly the face of the person in front of her... Shen Ye.
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